Moving/2169 Mission/Painting

This is a page for capturing ideas associated with the preparation and painting of 2169 Mission #300.
Painting -- Responsible for prepping and painting the vertical surfaces of the space beneath the ceiling and over the floor.

Budget: rough estimate of $1800-2200

Paint estimate for only the current exterior walls (not the columns or baseboarding) is roughly 25 - 30 gallons. $20-45/gallon suggests a paint budget of 600-1400 dollars, not including all prep materials.

Clean the surface to be painted sufficiently well enough for their to be good adhesion of a new surface covering layer. This goes for loose dirt or excessive grease (the rear windowsills for example), but generally we do not need to wash the walls.

Remove obstructions, or at least minimize their intrusion

nails power-hammer driven into cement can't be yanked... but can be snipped off or ground nearly flush with the wall. Of course if they're really high... we probably don't care

Mask what we are not painting

Mask to the first seam of whatever we cannot fully envelope with plastic and tape, such as electrical outlets

Scrape excess paint and debris from the walls

Sand the surface until there are smooth edges to any scraped bits.

Focus on adhesion for determining when to stop. The wall facing the stairs and sliding glass door fire escape is a great example of great adhesion that has been painted over multiple times.

Prime surfaces that will not receive self-priming paint well.

Galvanized metals and anything going onto a gloss-finished area are prime (pun intended) examples of what needs to be primed.

1. check with electrical team on some of the rusty square conduit and outlets; should they come off or not?

front wall attached to the janky breaker box

south wall front

south wall rear

hole in north wall with closed box over it

2. these are the prep needs (pix coming in a bit), so ppl can just go do a small amount of work when they have a chance. Please note that cleanup is part of any task - this is meaningful for scraping loose paint.

People have fantastic ideas about murals, special paints (blackboard paint, magnetic paint), other decorations, etc. I think we should get the base paint done before deciding about final treatments, as those can be done in entirely separate processes and there will be a fair amount of time before the space is full of Crap again anyway. Let's get the base job done and then deal with these one by one as time & energy permit.